Week 6/25 - 7/1

Prepositions: lesson 3

By

1. She's sitting by her computer and talking on the phone. (by = next to)  2. These beautiful buildings are by the water. Would you like to live or work by a river or a lake?  3. These office buildings are by a park.  4. They're sitting by each other and watching a movie.  5. You can learn English by going online. (by = method or way  6. You can split wood by using an axe.  7. He's a loan shark. By making loans at high interest rates, he has become very rich. However, he's not a good person to do business with. 8. He's a surfer. He rides on ocean waves by using a surfboad.  9. You can get around this city very easily by bus. (by = method of transportation: ...by bus, ....by train, .....by car, .....by taxi, .....by plane, etc.) 10. The fastest way to get around this city is by subway. 11. He needs to get to his meeting by 5:30. (by = before or at) 12. These buildings used to stand side-by-side until they fell down. (side-by-side = together)

                 
About and Around
                

topic preposition

For example, about conveys the topic in the following sentences:

• The story about his family is very sad.
• Tim knows a lot about physics.
• Did you hear about the accident?
• Let's talk about something else.

location preposition

The preposition about can also convey location - it is a location preposition. In the sentences below, the preposition about conveys the location of the noun after it. The use of "about" conveying location is used generally by English people while Americans prefer to use around

• She looked about the house for her phone. She looked around the house for her phone
• There were chairs about the room. There were chairs around the room
• The old man walked about the neighborhood singing a song. The old man walked around the neighborhood singing a song.

time preposition

The preposition about can also convey time - it is a time preposition. In the following examples, when the preposition about conveys time, it means "approximately." You can also use Around in place of About.

• The party started about 8:00 p.m.
• We moved to California about three months ago.
• The time is about 4:00 o'clock right now.

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Prepositions of Position:


at the back of

at the bottom of
at the top of
behind
between
in the corner of
in the middle of
next to
to the left of
on the other side of
to the left of

to the right of
on the side of
on top of

by

opposite                                      


Put together a plan describing where you sit, and the locations of the kennel, the factory, the lobby, the break room, conference rooms, etc.
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TEST 1: AFRICAN TRAVEL JOURNAL
January 9, 1995

We took a morning bus atintoontoupwith Arusha, and after checking atintoontoupwith a very simple hotel, started our search for a safari company. We went to Sunny Safaris, but nothing seems to be going soon. Next, we went to Cheetah Safaris. They have a safari going atintoontoupwith Tuesday. It sounds like a good deal atintoontoupwith $65 a day; we didn't want to search forever, so we chose them. While walking around town this afternoon, we met Joan and Per from Lamu. They introduced us atintoontoupwith Senara who will be taking the Safari atintoontoupwith us tomorrow. Later, we had dinner atintoontoupwith a less than exiting restaurant.

January 10, 1995

Our first day of safari! Uh, oh! Unfortunately, we had a late start after trying to get some cash for Reiner and Walter. On the way atintoontoupwith the park, our driver John first stopped atintoontoupwith two gas stations, and then we went to his house to pick atintoontoupwith some clothes. We didn't get atintoontoupwith Lake Manyara until after one o'clock. Can you believe John actually suggested stopping atintoontoupwith a restaurant before going atintoontoupwith the park? We all said, "No way!"

Test 2: Turkey

Turkey is a Eurasian country that stretches acrossatbetweeninofsincetounder the Anatolian peninsula in southwestern Asia and the Balkan region of southeastern Europe. The region comprising modern Turkey has seen the birth acrossatbetweeninofsincetounder major civilizations including the Byzantine and Ottoman Empires. Owing acrossatbetweeninofsincetounder its strategic location acrossatbetweeninofsincetounder the intersection of two continents, Turkey's culture is a unique blend acrossatbetweeninofsincetounder Eastern and Western tradition, often described as a bridge acrossatbetweeninofsincetounder the two civilizations. Turkey is a democratic, secular, unitary, constitutional republic whose political system was established in 1923 acrossatbetweeninofsincetounder the leadership of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk following the fall of the Ottoman Empire acrossatbetweeninofsincetounder the aftermath of World War I. Since then, Turkey has increasingly integrated with the West while continuing to foster relations with the Eastern world. It is a founding member acrossatbetweeninofsincetounder the United Nations, the Organization of the Islamic Conference, the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development and the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe, a member state of the Council of Europe acrossatbetweeninofsincetounder 1949 and of NATO acrossatbetweeninofsincetounder 1952.

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Modal Verbs: Advice

Please provide appropriate advice in the form of a short paragraph for the following use cases:

1. A student looking to start a career in nursing.  
2. A couple looking to move to Montpellier and looking for a place to live in the center of Montpellier
3. A person looking to improve his health.  Advice about diet, stress and exercise.